On Aug 31, 2006, at 03:36, Gavin Lambert wrote:
> Talden wrote:
>
>> Though if suggestions of being able to avoid diffing for
>> certain mime-types (EG binary types such as archives that
>> rarely produce useful diff results) are accepted and
>> implemented then those types wouldn't benefit from a pristine
>> copy and should probably just store size & date information in the
>> SVN area.
>
> And a checksum, so that SVN can determine if they've been modified or
> not. But yeah, I can't see any reason why they'd need the pristine
> copy
> stored in that case. (Unless you did want 'svn diff' to do something
> useful on them, in which case it'd have to fetch a pristine version
> from
> the server first if it didn't have its own.)
What if you wanted to be able to quickly "svn revert" some changes
without needing to redownload the file from the server?
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Received on Thu Aug 31 11:35:35 2006